Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics
The association football (soccer) tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics started on July 29 and ended on August 11, taking place throughout the United States. It was the first Olympic football competition in which officially professional players were allowed. Until then, the amateur-only rule had heavily favored socialist countries from the Eastern Bloc whose players were professionals in all but name. However, as agreed with FIFA to preserve the primacy of the World Cup, the Olympic competition was restricted to players with no more than five "A" caps at tournament start, regardless of age.
The soccer tournament was held in four venues:
Harvard Stadium (Boston)
Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (Annapolis, Maryland)
Stanford Stadium (Stanford, California)
Rose Bowl (Pasadena, California)
The Gold medal game between France and Brazil at the Rose Bowl attracted an Olympic Games soccer attendance record of 101,799. Until 2014 this remained the record attendance for a soccer game in the United States. This broke the previous Olympics record attendance of 100,000 set at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia for the game of the 1956 Olympic Games played between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. The Rose Bowl attendance would remain the Olympic record until 104,098 attended the game of the 2000 Summer Olympics between Cameroon and Spain at the Stadium Australia in Sydney.
The attendance also stood as the highest for a soccer game in the United States until 109,318 saw Manchester United defeat Real Madrid during the 2014 International Champions Cup at the Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.
Schedule
Qualifying
Sixteen teams qualified for the Olympic tournament after continental qualifying rounds. Three Warsaw Pact countries had qualified but withdrew as part of the Soviet-led boycott. They were replaced as follows:
East Germany were replaced by Norway.
USSR were replaced by West Germany.
Czechoslovakia were replaced by Italy.
Africa (CAF)
Asia (AFC)
North and Central America (CONCACAF)
South America (CONMEBOL)
Europe (UEFA)
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Hosting nation
Venues
Medalists
Gold Medal –
William AyacheMichel Bensoussan Michel BibardDominique Bijotat François BrissonPatrick Cubaynes Patrice GarandePhilippe Jeannol Guy Lacombe Jean-Claude Lemoult Jean-Philippe Rohr
Albert Rust Didier Sénac Jean-Christophe Thouvenel José Touré Daniel Xuereb Jean-Louis Zanon
Coach: Henri Michel
Silver Medal –
Pinga Davi Milton Cruz Luís Henrique Dias André Luís Mauro Galvão Tonho KitaGilmar Popoca Silvinho Gilmar Ademir Paulo Santos Ronaldo Silva DungaChicão Luiz Carlos Winck
Coach: Jair Picerni
Bronze Medal –
Mirsad Baljić Mehmed Baždarević Vlado Čapljić Borislav Cvetković Stjepan Deverić Milko Đurovski Marko Elsner Nenad Gračan Tomislav Ivković Srečko Katanec Branko Miljuš Mitar Mrkela Jovica Nikolić Ivan PudarLjubomir Radanović Admir Smajić
Dragan Stojković
Coach: Ivan Toplak
Match officials
Africa
Mohamed Hossameldin
Gebreyesus Tesfaye
Bester Kalombo
Asia
Abdul Aziz Al-Salmi
Kyung-Bok Cha
Toshikazu Sano
North and Central America
Tony Evangelista
Antonio Márquez Ramírez
Luis Paulino Siles
David Socha
Edward Bellion
South America
Romualdo Arppi Filho
Gastón Castro
Jesús Díaz
Jorge Eduardo Romero
Europe
Enzo Barbaresco
Ioan Igna
Jan Keizer
Brian McGinlay
Joël Quiniou
Volker Roth
Victoriano Sánchez Arminio
Edvard Šoštarič
Squads
Final tournament
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
Final team rankings
Statistics
Goalscorers
With five goals, Daniel Xuereb of France, Borislav Cvetković and Stjepan Deverić of Yugoslavia are the top scorers in the tournament. In total, 84 goals were scored by 52 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.
5 goals
Daniel Xuereb
Borislav Cvetković
Stjepan Deverić
4 goals
Gilmar Popoca
3 goals
Dale Mitchell
François Brisson
Rudolf Bommer
Uwe Rahn
Jovica Nikolić
2 goals
Dunga
Emad Soliman
Beniamo Vignola
Hussein Saeed
Joar Vaadal
Khalid Al-Muhannadi
Rick Davis
Christian Schreier
1 goal
Kita
Ronaldo Silva
Silvio Paiva
Paul Bahoken
Louis-Paul Mfédé
Roger Milla
Gerry Gray
Igor Vrablic
Jaime Baeza
Fernando Santis
Evaristo Coronado
Enrique Rivers
Magdi Abdelghani
Mahmoud El Khatib
Khaled Gadallah
Dominique Bijotat
Patrice Garande
Philippe Jeannol
Guy Lacombe
Jean-Claude Lemoult
Ali Hussein Shihab
Franco Baresi
Pietro Fanna
Aldo Serena
Mustapha Merry
Per Egil Ahlsen
Majed Abdullah
Gregg Thompson
Jean Willrich
Manfred Bockenfeld
Andreas Brehme
Frank Mill
Mirsad Baljić
Nenad Gračan
Ljubomir Radanović
Discipline
In the final tournament, a player was suspended for the subsequent match in the competition for getting a red card. The following twelve players were sent off and suspended during the final tournament:
Trivia
The wave was first broadcast internationally during the 1984 Olympic football final, when it was done among the 100,000 in attendance at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena.
References
External links
Olympic Football Tournament Los Angeles 1984, FIFA.com
RSSSF Summary
FIFA Technical Report
1984 Summer Olympics events
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